JP Crumrine
JP Crumrine is news editor of the Idyllwild Town Crier newspaper.
Steven King new Pine Cove water director
Editor’s note: At its March 14 meeting, the Pine Cove Water District Board of Directors selected Steven King as the fifth director replacing Joel...
IWD board finishes busy, full meeting
New director, transparency policies and capital improvement plan
The directors of Idyllwild Water District had a long, busy and productive meeting on March 21. They...
Supervisors agree to move forward on cannabis ordinance
A cannabis (marijuana) industry is likely to come to the unincorporated areas of Riverside County, perhaps in 2018. Already nearly a dozen cities within the county have permitted at least one feature — retailing, cultivating, testing or distributing — of the novice industry. At the end of a nearly three-hour workshop Tuesday, March 20, Supervisor Kevin Jeffries, 2nd District, summarized the Riverside County Board of Supervisor’s next steps.
Caltrans patrolling for rocks — and de-icing the highway
Caltrans’ blade-equipped vehicles recently could be heard many times throughout the night scraping Highway 243 even though there was no snow accumulation. The Town...
Still working on extending WNKI signal
Fuelbreak work continues on Hill
The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce met last week, but inclement weather kept the attendance at the low end of a...
Fern Valley Water considering staff increase
No change to summer hours
The Fern Valley Water District board is considering hiring a third field employee, but rejected the general manager’s recommendation to...
State still fixing cannabis laws
Despite a proposition (64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act) passed in November 2016 and legislation (The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety...
Pinyon homicide trial pretrial motions begin
Courtroom battle within weeks
The trial of Robert Lars Pape, 29, and Cristin Conrad Smith, 29, charged with multiple counts of murder, is supposed to...
Little support for state water tax
Local water districts oppose it, too
The possibility of the state Legislature imposing a tax on local water bills is looming. Throughout the state, local...
Pine Cove Water considers rate increases over next five years
The directors of the Pine Cove Water District have scheduled a hearing for May 9 to listen to public comments about, to discuss and, possibly, to decide on a five-year rate increase. The bi monthly charge could grow about 33 percent and the cost per 1,000 gallons almost four times after five years.